phanthinga If you have never seen any black magic movie or want to see just one for the rest of your live then do me a favor watch The Boxer's Omen it will change your mind immediately.The location is beautiful and the set up for each fight between the force of good and evil is jaws-dropping awesome.With the amount of WTF-ness in The Boxer's Omen i think you need to shut your brain off completely to embracing all the goodness the movie can offer.It suck that the main guy is kind of ass when he disrespect people who save his life but a pre-Bloodsport Bolo Yeung is always good for my heart

Leofwine_draca Out of the handful of Hong Kong horrors I've watched, THE BOXER'S OMEN stands head and shoulders above the rest as the finest of its kind. Made with the packing of the Shaw Brothers studio, whose funds give this an expansive, colourful look that some of the low budget monstrosities lack, THE BOXER'S OMEN is a wild ride packed with special effects, violence, nudity and a simply insane plot covering the battle between good and evil. Forget the likes of ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND: in its depiction of battling monks and evil wizards, this is a film that goes one step further (and usually beyond the boundaries of good taste).Things kick off – literally – with a kickboxing match not too dissimilar from the likes of KICKBOXER. The big, brutish bad guy is fan favourite Bolo Yeung, here perfecting his evil sneer with relish. The hero of the piece is Phillip Ko, another Hong Kong mainstay usually known for playing bad guys in various kung fu outings; it's refreshing to see him cast as the good guy for once. Although he initially goes to Thailand to seek vengeance, he soon becomes involved in another story entirely that turns out to loosely follow on from the one in BEWITCHED (the airport finale of that film is reprised here).Before you know it, Ko is regurgitating live eels, shaving his head and following the Buddhist preachings as he joins forces with a dead and decaying abbot who forever gives him spiritual guidance. He's going to need it, as he's up against some particularly nasty foes: evil wizards who vomit up their foodstuffs and cast all manner of spells that usually involve bringing to life some unpleasant creatures. These range from spiders and weird snail-like alien creatures to a human mummy, who's put inside a crocodile corpse and covered in all kinds of crap before finding reincarnation as an evil queen of black magic who possesses all kind of deadly powers. There's real-life animal slaughter, tons of offal flowing around the screen, frequent nudity, rotting bodies, worms and maggots and laser beam special effects that would have been the best of its day. In fact many of the gruesome effects are still impressive today thanks to the sheer hard work that's gone into their creation.There are bizarre highlights here, from the flying severed wizard head attacking our hero (clearly influenced by the likes of Indonesian horror fare such as MYSTICS IN BALI) to the extended, good-vs-evil battle of the climax. It's not a film for the squeamish, certainly, as most of the stuff going on here is designed to make you bring up your lunch, but if you can handle the pace then you're in for a treat: this is one of the most creative, no-holds-barred black magic horror films ever made!

peter_okelly I have to give this film a high rating just for the fact that it is so utterly insane, disgusting but at times brilliant. When I was in the USA last year, I went into a cool little Indy Music and DVD shop looking for a Martial Arts movie to watch that night. This little gem jumped off the shelf into my hands. Watching it that night, I actually found myself so horrified with some of the scenes, I was looking around the room to see if anyone else might be watching me watching the movie. You see, I was visiting family and didn't want to be categorised as the strange chap from London who watches films where wizards eat chickens testicles. To me, it had the spirit of Jodorowsky with some absolutely amazing scenes of transcendence by Buddhist meditation that still look awesome with today's technology. Not many movies like this. Really glad i found it.

dbborroughs Unless you have spent your life watching Asian horror films I doubt you've seen anything like this. This is one of the most mind blowing or mind bending films ever made. You will marvel at the bizarre twists and turns this film takes, not to mention the on the cheap monsters, full frontal nudity and magical confrontations.The plot has a young Chinese man seeking revenge on a Thai boxer who attacked his brother after a fight and broke his neck. Heading to Thailand he ends up falling in with a band of monks who need the young man to help fight an evil wizard who has killed their leader just as he was about to achieve immortality. It seems the monk (who's disembodied spirit keeps appearing to the boxer) and the boxer were twins in a past life and have some connection so that what happens to one will happen to the other (a spiritual Corsican Brothers sort of thing) so the only one who can fight the evil is the boxer who agrees to become a monk so that he can save the spirit of his twin and his own life. What follows are a series of would be gross out sequences as the boxer fights the evil wizard, takes on the Thai boxer who paralyzed his brother and so much more. Wow.Good looking, but with special effects that are a bit silly (when they aren't employing real animal offal) this is a movie that will make you laugh at and with it even as its bending your mind. This is a one of a kind movie that mixes up a variety of genres into a truly unique blend (you may have seen similar things before but not all in one movie). It's a serious story but with the presence of mind not to take itself too seriously. Clearly it knows the effects are less than stellar and it uses that to its advantage by playing those scenes a bit light hearted as if to say "we know they're cheap, just go with us". And you will want to go with it since the film's anything can happen attitude makes this a one of a kind viewing experience.See this movie. If you like action films or horror films I'd give this film a try. Those looking for unique cinematic experiences need to put this on their must see list